>Great work, Eric. Any chance of a Mac version? I used to have a
program
>for porting TrueType fonts between MAc and Windows, but it seems
I've
>mislaid it.

as far as this font is finished, it will be available for everyone
interessed. Pfaedit allow to export to postscript binary for mac
so it's probably possible to use it there.

>My further understanding, again I could be wrong but I've looked
into it, is 
>that postscript doesn't handle True-type fonts natively, but the
level 3 
>Postscript version of the language is capable of using the OS's
underlying 

there is several ttf2pfa / pf* / ps utilities, so when the font is
designed, it's not really a problem.

The main problem is for key mapping, because in the case of
application using ttf I guess they have their own key mapping (in
fact I don't know I've only tried to use it for abc2win for now).
Compared to font designing (even if it's not finished and some had
to be redesigned), the mapping is not a piece of cake at all !
That's also why I wish to get rid of the ttf fonts in the future
and concentrate more on type 1 fonts, but I have to learn more on
them before that (I've downloaded some reference books from
adobe). I think there is also some renaissance / medieval musical
fonts packages available, but they are certainly for MusixTek or
related. And I wanted to have fonts close to the one used in
Orchesography (I'll check it but I think it's quite the same in
Playford manuscript). It is planned also to have even several font
designs, some manuscripts uses narrower notes, differents bass or
treble key etc.




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